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nightdog_barks

Paint by Numbers Tuesday

Sep 16, 2014 13:13

1) It has warmed up again and gotten very humid, so I've had to close the windows and turn on the a/c. Bah, humbug.

2) ALMOST finished with Bone Clocks, and ... I'm not quite sure what to think of it. So far I like 90% of it and am rolling my eyes at the other 10%, and I think that might hold for the rest of the book. All I'll say right now ( Read more... )

tv, book talk, movies, dreams

Comments 7

barefootpuddles September 16 2014, 21:14:22 UTC

I remember 'Fanny and Alexander' - that was not a movie I liked and parts of it (mostly beating the boy and then dumping him in the attic (IRC)) bothered me for months afterwards. I went to see it in college with some friends, they were showing it in a classroom theater, and I seemed to be the only bothered. Which in turn bothered me more.

I did see 'Savings Mr. Banks' recently but I had read the real story of PL Travers first and so it kind of felt fake. I did think that Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson did a good job though with their parts, but Paul Giamatti was a typical Disney-fied role. Just my two cents. ;)

nightdog_barks September 16 2014, 22:34:02 UTC

Yep, that whole "evil stepfather" storyline is disturbing, and what happens to the evil stepfather afterwards is also disturbing. I always thought it was meant to be intense and disturbing, so I'm also bothered that a college audience would let it go, as it were.

... I hope that didn't come out as confused as it sounded. :D

As you can imagine, I loved the current of magical realism that ran through the whole film. The ghost, the puppets, Uncle Isak's family -- they're all just amazing. The whole thing is like a dream-memory.

Emma Thompson was terrific! And I liked Tom Hanks, and I think I was just more surprised at Paul Giamatti than anything else. Disney-fied is right!

pwcorgigirl September 16 2014, 21:35:52 UTC

I had sleep paralysis dreams a lot up until college, when one my classmates who was a psych major told me that they were anxiety dreams and coached me on how to tell myself "this is not real" when the demon came and sat on my chest. Danged if it didn't work! I lost touch with him after school, but I hope he's practicing somewhere and curing lots of people. :)

nightdog_barks September 16 2014, 22:42:12 UTC

I'm pretty good with extricating myself from most anxiety dreams (I get exasperated in the dream and say "This is stupid. I'm not going to dream this," and it stops). The paralysis dreams seem to be a whole different anxiety animal, though -- much, much more powerful and terrifying. They're always of the "intruder" variety. Last night it was a woman, dressed in grey and black, who was going to touch me on the shoulder, and when I try and say "No," I can't make a sound. And then eventually I can make a sound, and I wake up. And am STILL terrified, because it's like OMGWTFBBQ WHAT IF IT WASN'T A DREAM.

:D

My subconscious, let me show you it. ;-)

pwcorgigirl September 17 2014, 00:37:10 UTC

Corgiguy, who also has terrible insomnia, will have spells of having that kind of dream every night for several nights running. He'll start making these strangled screams as he comes out of one, and the only way I can wake him up is to shake him or smack him sharply on the shoulder. One night, when he was screaming to beat the band and couldn't wake up, I planted my foot against his hip and shoved him halfway out of the bed. The sensation of falling wakes a person up every time!

After 28 years of this, I can usually pummel him into wakefulness without fully waking up myself. It's like midnight multi-tasking. :D

daasgrrl September 17 2014, 06:15:08 UTC

Aww, I liked Saving Mr Banks, I think for pretty much the sole reason that it was kind of refreshing to have an unpleasant, middle-aged female character who just kind of unapologetically snarled at everyone, and yet everyone bent over backwards to accommodate her. Is my wish-fulfilment showing? LOLOL.

nightdog_barks September 17 2014, 17:49:14 UTC

AND YOU KNOW, I DID THINK ABOUT THAT. :D

Seriously, my Uncomfortable Revelation was that if P.L. Travers had been a guy -- a gruff, acid-tongued, snarly guy who put everyone in their place and didn't care what people thought (and where have we seen that before, ha) -- I probably would have liked him.

BUT. They also showed us her childhood, and I didn't particularly care for her as a child, either, and I didn't care for her father. So maybe I wouldn't have liked a male P.L. Travers if they'd shown us HIM as a child? IDK. I am probably overthinking all of this. *g*